The Tantra of Caṇḍa­mahā­roṣaṇa
Retention of Semen and Similar Practices

Then the lord said:

“One should make a pill from the root of white butterfly pea with semen, and make a tilak mark on a woman’s forehead. Then she will become enthralled.

“One should smear one’s penis with tubeflower, sweet flag, and honey, and make love to a woman. One will enthrall her.

“One should administer to a woman costus and the root of vernonia, together with betel. Similarly one can administer tubeflower, false black pepper, sweet flag, costus, and cobra’s saffron, together with betel. She will become enthralled.158

“One should blend together donkey’s semen and lotus filaments, rub this onto one’s penis,159 and make love to a woman. Then she will become enthralled.

“One should obtain the tongue from a toothless calf and cow’s bile, and blend it with menstrual blood. By giving a woman a tilak on the forehead, one will enthrall her. One will produce the same effect by using the root of false daisy and one’s semen.160

“One should smear the vine of white Indian oleander mixed with the blood of a wolf and a vulture.161 One should then fumigate an effigy of the desired woman and strike it with the vine. She will become enthralled.

“A woman whose head is sprinkled with a preparation from a peacock’s crest, a crow’s tongue, and the pollen from a garland worn by a dead person, will become enthralled. The result will be the same if one makes love to her after smearing one’s penis with the root of dwarf morning glory.162

“One should obtain, when the moon is in the asterism of Puṣya, the fruit of downy datura; when it is in Āśleṣa, the bark; when in Hasta, the leaves; when in Citrā, the flowers; when in Mūla, the root. One should take an equal portion of each and make a pill with honey. One should wrap it in cloth and dry it. One should offer it to a woman together with betel. With added shell-powder, she will become enthralled. [F.335.a]

“A woman, if her name is written with goat’s milk using the right paw of a dog in heat‍—‘May such and such come’‍—will arrive.

“One should heat up a peacock’s feather in a smokeless fire together with five impure substances,163 and serve it to a woman in her food and so on. She will become enthralled.

“One should dig out, when the moon is in the asterism of Puṣya, the root of butterfly pea and rub it onto a cloth. One should then place lampblack collyrium together with human fat in a human skull. By applying this oily ointment, one will enthrall a woman or a man.

“One should serve to a woman the root of vernonia together with the five impurities. This will bring her into a state of enthrallment.

“One should serve to a woman false black pepper, crape jasmine, and costus, together with wine. One will remove her lack of fidelity.

“One should apply to the eye realgar, powder of cobra’s saffron, perfumed cherry, and the pigment of bovine gallstones. The enthrallment will take place.

“One who wears a tilak made with musk, sensitive plant, downy datura, and vernonia, will bring the threefold universe to a state of enthrallment.

“Having placed on one’s penis red flowers of Indian oleander, one should recite one thousand times the mantra: ‘Oṁ, O fickle-minded164 one! Cili, cili! Culu, culu! Release your fluid, release! Svāhā!’165

“To make a woman confused and enthralled, make an effigy of her; in front of it recite the mantra, including her name; and pierce the effigy with a copper needle.

“First one should do ten thousand recitations of the mantra without the name as the preliminary practice. Then, adding the name, one should recite: ‘Hail, Caṇḍālī! Enthrall such and such! Svāhā!’166

“That practice should number ten thousand recitations. One should then incant, on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight, the ashes from a charnel ground with 108 recitations of this mantra, and place these ashes on the woman’s head. She will become enthralled.

“One should light up a lamp made with pig’s fat, with a wick made of the white thread172 of giant milkweed dyed red with lac.173 This will arrest the semen.

“Alternatively one should heat up safflower oil174 and rub it on the soles of one’s feet. This will arrest the semen.175

“By applying an ointment of the root of white panicled foldwing, the filamens of white lotus, and honey, one will arrest the semen.

“One should wrap the root of dwarf morning glory176 in a lotus leaf and fasten it to one’s hips. This will arrest the semen.177

“One should grind yellow orpiment, collyrium made from the vitriol of copper, quicksilver, long pepper, sea salt, costus, and pigeon’s droppings. After rubbing this onto one’s penis in the upward direction, one will be able to arrest one’s semen.178

“One should obtain an upward-growing ox horn,179 grind it, and rub it onto one’s penis. This will cause an erection.

“One should pulverize the root of cowitch together with goat’s urine, smear it on one’s penis, and rub it in. One should give the penis an upward jolt three times.180 The penis will become erect. Rinsing with warm water will cause detumescence.

“One should enclose quicksilver inside a cowrie shell and place it in one’s mouth. This will arrest the semen.

“One should steep bitter cucumber in goat’s urine for seven days. After applying this to the penis, it will become erect.

“One should grind the root of oṣaṇī,181 the root of black nightshade, and the downy datura seeds in camphor juice. After applying this to the penis, one should make love to a woman. Then she will drip. One should blend sea salt, borax, camphor, and the powder of loofah together with honey, and apply it to the penis. The result will be the same.

“One should blend pigeon’s droppings with honey, and after applying this to the penis, make love to a woman. Then she will drip.

“During lovemaking, one should feed the root of black nightshade with betel to a woman. Then she will drip.

“One should mix ripe tamarind fruit and sugar-cane juice with salt, and smear this onto one’s index finger. Then insert the finger into the vagina and excite the ‘nerve of Vajra­dhātvīśvarī’ until the woman drips.

“After applying an ointment of camphor, borax, quicksilver, and gajapippalī, the woman will drip.

“One should chew up the root of rāmadūtī182 together with the leaves, put this on the penis, and make love. Then she will drip. [F.336.a]

“One should grind the root of Indian sesbania, blending it with rice water. By applying this to the vagina during coition, the woman will surely not conceive.

“One should grind the seeds of dhak and apply the paste. Subsequently, if the woman drinks the juice of red leadwort with honey and clarified butter, she will surely not conceive.183

“One should insert into the loose vagina the powder from locusts and moths. The vagina will then become firm.”